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raising the alarm over germany's reported plans the measures are due to be rolled out after next year's elections and would apparently raise the retirement age height taxes cut welfare bring europe to a grinding halt according to the i.m.f. and on top of that is peter all of a discovered it's unlikely to make dejected voters and happy. they're top of the european tree but don't think germans feel that they have nothing to grumble about a v.f. un back in the park to show their measuring public mood by telephone and face to face through thousands of interviews we've got a pretty good idea of what the people are thinking stats boffins have been gauging the country's mood to come up with the biggest moans of the year from your average german at number five it's national debt it's better to give than to receive at this time of year but germans festive spirit ran out long ago over chancellor merkel being a little too generous and bailing out countries like greece especially when it's their money and for is climate change the mayan world ending prophecy may have turned out to be hocus pocus but germans
raising the alarm over germany's reported plans the measures are due to be rolled out after next year's elections and would apparently raise the retirement age height taxes cut welfare bring europe to a grinding halt according to the i.m.f. and on top of that is peter all of a discovered it's unlikely to make dejected voters and happy. they're top of the european tree but don't think germans feel that they have nothing to grumble about a v.f. un back in the park to show their measuring public...
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presidential election twenty we had three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and i mean you come across lines throughout the night it was a great night wasn't a little color was right behind us was in it but but so one point when putin came out to show me like crowds the way cost to move the thousands and thousands of people but also celebrating his victory one of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place up to that election work and protest rallies that never really feels like we're actually taking part in the event it was during one of the massive protests rallies in moscow on bolotnaya square that it really hit people the first time when i saw the crowd walking it's easy to park right next to ours another station and i realized how soon was people. really turned uncontrollable or was second and held then just as easily chaos rebirth of people trying to get the political point across in the past twelve months. the best way to do that would be a bag on your head and do some right be dancing in a cathedral the one thing that was important to get a
presidential election twenty we had three cameras up on this roof correspondents throughout moscow and i mean you come across lines throughout the night it was a great night wasn't a little color was right behind us was in it but but so one point when putin came out to show me like crowds the way cost to move the thousands and thousands of people but also celebrating his victory one of the main points the unprecedented protests that took place up to that election work and protest rallies that...
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proud scot and chancellor of the exchequer at the height of the financial crisis after labor lost the election in two thousand and ten he withdrew from the front benches but now he's back as to darling thank you for talking to us first of all tell me what prompted you to come back to frontline politics i think the main thing is the future of scotland matters to me at the moment the united kingdom is over three hundred years old and its future matters this isn't a general election where you decide the government for four or five years and if you don't like it you could only get another one this is one that if we decide to change you would decide to become independent of the rest united kingdom is something could last three hundred years for ever and i happen to think that it's one way ticket to a deeply uncertain destination that's why i'm involved in it so now you are a leading voice in the better together campaign tell me why are we better together i think the three reasons firstly there is the emotional the cultural ties that bind the united kingdom together i've riggs ample scottish and i'm
proud scot and chancellor of the exchequer at the height of the financial crisis after labor lost the election in two thousand and ten he withdrew from the front benches but now he's back as to darling thank you for talking to us first of all tell me what prompted you to come back to frontline politics i think the main thing is the future of scotland matters to me at the moment the united kingdom is over three hundred years old and its future matters this isn't a general election where you...
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that just took place everybody followed the us elections it was a very tight race between president obama and mitt romney in france we've had a new president elected and people follow that in russia there was an election but not much choice and in china there wasn't even the pretend to be they didn't pretend to elect a new leader they just put someone there and people don't want that people want democracy people want to say people want to play a role in their societies china does not offer that to them in the political sphere and therefore i believe for a long time coming there's not going to be a chinese century alexander what about the middle class what it would happy said about the middle class because that's the power of the west traditionally. yes i mean the middle class is very strong in the west t.v. is right there are problems we have a declining middle class that is something we have to fight but for the time being we are both the most competitive societies and the most equitable societies if you look at the distribution of income in china in russia in brazil you will see t
that just took place everybody followed the us elections it was a very tight race between president obama and mitt romney in france we've had a new president elected and people follow that in russia there was an election but not much choice and in china there wasn't even the pretend to be they didn't pretend to elect a new leader they just put someone there and people don't want that people want democracy people want to say people want to play a role in their societies china does not offer that...
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moment the united kingdom is over three hundred years old and its future matters this isn't a general election where you decide the government for four or five years and if you don't like it you could only get another one this is one that if we decide to change you would decide to become independent from the rest united kingdom if something could last three hundred years it's for ever and i happen to think that it's one way ticket to a deeply uncertain destination that's why i'm involved in it so now you are a leading voice in the better together campaign tell me why are we better together i think the three reasons firstly there is the emotional the cultural ties that bind the united kingdom together i've riggs ample scottish and i'm also british and i'm proud of being both and i don't see why i go to choose and you know if you look at the olympics in the summer time i didn't change things in the last few betoken like that but it brought to the surface i think something that was already there a very powerful bond between the nations of the country secondly we have more influence of the united
moment the united kingdom is over three hundred years old and its future matters this isn't a general election where you decide the government for four or five years and if you don't like it you could only get another one this is one that if we decide to change you would decide to become independent from the rest united kingdom if something could last three hundred years it's for ever and i happen to think that it's one way ticket to a deeply uncertain destination that's why i'm involved in it...
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of marriage equality and we saw voters in four states echo that commitment to marriage equality on election day affirming the rights of gays and lesbians to get married we also saw voters in two states washington and colorado strike a blow to richard nixon's failed drug war by legalizing and regulating marijuana and we saw some progressive icons get elected to congress like a loser the war in the senate and alan grayson in the house and we saw the labor movement revived in places like wisconsin michigan and ohio and yet despite these progressive achievements there was a lot of bad news for progress as well as we see in the current fiscal cliff negotiations austerity is still the main focus of lawmakers rather than talking to raising the minimum wage we're talking about just how many millionaires are going to get to keep their bush tax cuts rather than talking about health care for all we're talking about how much of a hit future social security recipients are going to take on their benefits and nowhere is there any progress on climate change i mean progress is still have a lot of work to do
of marriage equality and we saw voters in four states echo that commitment to marriage equality on election day affirming the rights of gays and lesbians to get married we also saw voters in two states washington and colorado strike a blow to richard nixon's failed drug war by legalizing and regulating marijuana and we saw some progressive icons get elected to congress like a loser the war in the senate and alan grayson in the house and we saw the labor movement revived in places like wisconsin...
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election i did six thousand miles in six southwest states i saw poverty all over. twenty years ago i used to go to the south. where what's going on in parts of nevada in parts of utah and parts of colorado now days to twenty years ago you know it. is graphic anybody in europe is more complicated for instance i have lots of friends in spain my son lives in barcelona for that matter so i'm in close contact what's going on inside spain's unemployment rate for the new generation the google facebook generation now is fifty percent so even if you go to a good school or even a technical school. it is in spain after wars there's no jobs so the solution for them is to immigrate to south america over here you know any in europe is more complicated have parts of germany which have some of the best standard of living anywhere in the world you have northeastern italy for instance which has a tradition of small premiership you go to a small. construction area. making clothes gucci styling florence or making food in bali and export all over the world but it is they've been doing
election i did six thousand miles in six southwest states i saw poverty all over. twenty years ago i used to go to the south. where what's going on in parts of nevada in parts of utah and parts of colorado now days to twenty years ago you know it. is graphic anybody in europe is more complicated for instance i have lots of friends in spain my son lives in barcelona for that matter so i'm in close contact what's going on inside spain's unemployment rate for the new generation the google facebook...
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human rights groups are also aging the gulf kingdom to end its bloody crackdown on public gatherings elect heads he looks at who's really benefiting from the two years of unrest. when it came to supporting calls for democracy in middle eastern or north african states while denouncing government sponsored violence leaders of the west were vocally critical from our graphic has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave out a very clear message for president which is it is time for him to go but when scenes of violent clashes between riot police and reform company risk came from bahrain the definition of democracy shifted and rhetoric softened. in the summer of the us state department came up with a statement expressing its concerns over the human rights situation and alleged torture in bahrain this was only several months after washington had restarted weapons sales to this gulf state dissenters in bahrain have been directing anger at their government for months now stop arming the killers is a message they are more often sending out to the west some of the in bahrain blood is worthless and t
human rights groups are also aging the gulf kingdom to end its bloody crackdown on public gatherings elect heads he looks at who's really benefiting from the two years of unrest. when it came to supporting calls for democracy in middle eastern or north african states while denouncing government sponsored violence leaders of the west were vocally critical from our graphic has lost legitimacy to lead and he must leave out a very clear message for president which is it is time for him to go but...
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direct result of what happened on nine eleven and our military leaders our president and most of our elected members of congress all agree that these drone strikes are necessary to keep americans safe and this effort president obama has his own kill list and he's authorized deadly strikes against american citizens abroad with out first affording these individuals a trial in response to terrorism we have killer drones plus all the trappings of a surveillance state here at home but what we what do we as a nation what have we done in response to gun violence nothing well which is odd considering that since two thousand americans have a one in three point five million chance of getting killed in a terrorist attack not only that if you don't account for american war zones in iraq and afghanistan then islamic terrorism killed at most four hundred people in two thousand and eleven roughly the same number of people who died in their bathtubs that same year in the united states alone. on the other hand on average thirty thousand americans die every single year by way of gun violence and since nine hu
direct result of what happened on nine eleven and our military leaders our president and most of our elected members of congress all agree that these drone strikes are necessary to keep americans safe and this effort president obama has his own kill list and he's authorized deadly strikes against american citizens abroad with out first affording these individuals a trial in response to terrorism we have killer drones plus all the trappings of a surveillance state here at home but what we what...